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Thursday, August 22, 2013

How to Hybridise Bearded Iris, Iris Genetics and Hybridizing with Dr. Kenneth Kidd -- PART 1

As the new Iris season is getting close, and for
those of us thinking about giving Iris Hybridising a go this season, you
would have to agree it was very good timing that GardenClips producer Patrick Volk sent me this
message today "I was recently shooting video of irises at the Marsh
Botanical Garden at Yale University when we ran into Dr Kenneth K. Kidd,
Professor of Genetics, of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and of
Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine who dabbles in breeding
bearded iris and he graciously agreed on the spot to show us how he does
it. Your readers may find these videos to be a useful visual aid".
In the book 'The World of Irises' Chapter 26 'Iris genetics' was written
by the very same Dr.Kenneth Kidd in 1978 and is still a relevant and
interesting read, very useful when your hybridizing becomes just a
little more serious than fun.The art and fun of iris hybridising is in
choosing which pollen parent to cross on which pod parent.

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